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[Bug stdio/20200] dprintf unconditionally calls malloc
- From: "carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:31:08 +0000
- Subject: [Bug stdio/20200] dprintf unconditionally calls malloc
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- References: <bug-20200-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20200
--- Comment #3 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #2)
> (In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #1)
> > Note that dprintf need not be AS-safe, POSIX doesn't mandate it, and we
> > don't document any safety standard for it in the glibc manual, nor in the
> > linux man pages project. The original author of the interface (Roland
> > McGrath) has stated that he intended it to be AS-safe, but we don't know if
> > that's even possible today.
> >
> > I don't quite understand why this is filed as a distinct bug from bug 16060?
>
> It's a regression in 2.23. It's fix probably will not address the other
> issues in bug 16060.
What's the regression?
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